Esta edición del Boletín entrega un recuento de la Conferencia sobre el Efecto Año 2000 en los Sistemas de Transporte del Hemisferio Occidental, que se celebró en Cancún, México, en mayo de 1999. Asimismo, proporciona un nuevo análisis sobre el transporte marítimo en Sudámerica, elaborado y presentado por Uruguay en la Quinta Reunión Ordinaria de la Conferencia de Ministros de Transportes, Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas de América del Sur, Cochabamba, Bolivia, en abril de 1999.…
First meeting on European soil. The Nineteenth Meeting of National Customs Directors of Latin America, Spain and Portugal was held in Palma, Mallorca, Spain, from 2 to 6 November 1998. The opening session stressed the importance of this being the first meeting held on European soil, and members were urged to pool their efforts to develop closer cooperative ties between the region's customs services.…
Primera reunión en territorio europeo. La XIX Reunión de Directores Nacionales de Aduanas de América Latina, España y Portugal, se celebró en Palma de Mallorca, España, del 2 al 6 de noviembre de 1998. En la sesión de apertura, se resaltó la importancia de la reunión de ser la primera que se realiza en territorio europeo y se exhortó a los miembros a unir esfuerzos para estrechar los lazos de cooperación entre los servicios aduaneros de la región.…
Abstract Concentration in liner shipping means that relatively larger shipping companies are increasing their market share at the expense of the remaining smaller players. Although this process is not new, it has gained strength and is particularly affecting ports and shipping services in developing regions. Because trade is growing as a proportion of world GDP, governments and international organizations attach an increasing priority to improving ports and shipping services. This leads to deregulation, which, together with technological advances, increases the incentives for shipping companie…
Abstract During the course of 1997 and 1998, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) carried out the project Comparative study of development strategies of selected East-Asian and Latin American countries with special reference to trade and industrial policies under the new international trading system . The project was designed to extract from the experiences of both regions the essence of the appropriate public policy in industrial and trade development and to identify its new role and available instruments, in conformity with the post-Uruguay Round trade reg…
La presente edición del Panorama de la inserción internacional de América Latina y el Caribe persigue el doble objetivo de informar a los gobiernos de la región sobre las tendencias de la economía y del comercio internacionales, que pueden incidir en sus estrategias de desarrollo económico, y de contribuir al intercambio de información sobre los instrumentos de política comercial utilizados por los países latinoamericanos y caribeños en el período comprendido entre enero de 1996 y julio-agosto de 1997. Esta segunda edición, correspondiente a 1997, está dividida en cuatro partes. En la primera…
Among the East and Southeast Asian economies often regarded as the most successful showcases, the People's Republic of China (PRC); occupies an outstanding place. This economy has one of the fastest growing GNPs in the world, and its outward orientation in the post-Mao Zedong era has made the country a significant world trade partner, so that the question of whether or not the economy stays on its sustained growth path will affect the welfare of the world economy in its entirety, including Latin America. The deepening of the ongoing economic reforms, coupled with prudent macro policies, s…
The Caribbean Meeting of Experts on Implementation of the SIDS Programme of Action,
held at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 17-19 May 1995 was convened
to review progress towards implementation of the SIDS Programme of Action (SIDS-POA), to
discuss constraints on the effective implementation of the Programme and to agree on priority areas
for action.
It was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean/Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (ECLAC/CDCC), in collaboration
with the United Nations Development Programme’s Special Unit …